United Slutzker Relief Committee Inc

contributed by Jerry Seligsohn

There are other organizations found below but they all are presented
in this souvenir journal and are linked organizations. Again this journal was found in the RG
123 archive file which were the remnants of many landsmanshaften which did not warrant a boxed archive of their own.
One may gather from the titles the functions of the organizations. Please note the Inc. following the Relief Committee.
I conjecture that this was because it collected large amounts of money which individual
members attempted to deliver
in person to the local Slutzk organizations. These agents were often unfairly accused of mishandling funds which often had to go for
bribing local government officials. Please note the name of Maurice Hindus as honorary chairman.
He wrote books on the Soviet Union. He alerted me in his writings to the future economic collapse of the Soviet Union.
I remember using his analysis of Soviet agriculture in discussions with radical friends.
The clincher was his thesis that it took fourteen Soviet farm workers. To produce the output of one American farmer.
This was predicted by Hindus forty-five years ago.

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